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Title: Lymphoblastic Leukemia
Description: What is Lymphoblastic Leukemia? What are the Treatments? and the advantages and disadvantages of those treatments?
Description: What is Lymphoblastic Leukemia? What are the Treatments? and the advantages and disadvantages of those treatments?
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What is Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia?
Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL) is a cancer of the blood and bone marrow, where
the bone marrow produces too much lymphocytes (a type of white blood cells
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This type of Leukemia is caused by many rare mutations that
happen in the genes of a cell, if this is not treated quickly it could worsen fast
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Since chemotherapy damages and kills off a lot of healthy blood cells a
second treatment using stem cell transplants (inside your bone marrow) can be used
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These new cells that enter the patient's body produces new cells and
also important immune cells that help to kill leukaemic cells
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1) A risk on an infection:
Since you will be low on white blood cells it will be easier for you
to get an infection in our skin or in our digestive system
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2) Anaemia:
Having a low blood cell count
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3) Risk of bleeding:
After your treatment your platelet levels will be very low, causing you
to have a risk of bleeding
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5)
Graft versus host disease:
Some stem cell transplant donors that donate they’re stem
cells to others, can recognise their own tissues as being foreign and attack them
Title: Lymphoblastic Leukemia
Description: What is Lymphoblastic Leukemia? What are the Treatments? and the advantages and disadvantages of those treatments?
Description: What is Lymphoblastic Leukemia? What are the Treatments? and the advantages and disadvantages of those treatments?